postglacial rebound

In a video viewed 92,000 times since Monday, Youtuber “MrMBB333” claims that the earthquakes were due to what's called “postglacial rebound,” a naturally-occurring process by which lands, once depressed by the weight of a glacier, slowly rise after glaciers recede. The “unweighting” of the lands can ...

The gradient of air temperature with elevation (the temperature lapse rate) in the tropics is predicted to become less steep during the coming century as surface temperature rises, enhancing the threat of warming in high-mountain environments. However, the sensitivity of the lapse rate to climate change is ...

The Alps are steadily "growing" by about one to two millimeters per year. Likewise, the formerly glaciated subcontinents of North America and Scandinavia are also undergoing constant upward movement. This is due to the fact that at the end of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) about 18,000 years ago the ...

The Alps are steadily "growing" by about one to two millimeters per year. Likewise, the formerly glaciated subcontinents of North America and Scandinavia are also undergoing constant upward movement. This is due to the fact that at the end of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) about 18,000 years ago the ...

But when the ice melts away or gets thinner during warmer periods, the crust starts to bounce back, a process called postglacial rebound. In other words, it gets pressed down, but it gets up again, and we're never going to keep it down. New GPS measurements reported in the paper found that in some ...

[Response: Postglacial rebound was discovered in the 19th Century, just check out Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-glacial_rebound#Discovery. It has been happening since the last deglaciation, and its rate changes over longer timescales than the ones we focused on here. It is close to ...

Figure 4 — rates of crustal uplift (Glacial Isostatic Adjustment/postglacial rebound) based on data and modeling from Paulson (2007). This post has focused only on one aspect of Glacial Isostatic Adjustment — the downward flexing of the Earth's crust in the vicinity of loading by giant ice sheets, but there's ...